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Mueller-Hinton agar (MHA): Introduction, Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements, Testing Procedure, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes, and MHA Footages

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Mueller-Hinton agar (MHA): Introduction, Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements, Testing Procedure, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes, and MHA Footages

History and Introduction of Mueller-Hinton Agar (MHA) The name Mueller- Hinton agar(MHA) is from the surname of co-developers microbiologist John Howard Mueller and veterinary scientist Jane Hilton at Harvard University as a culture for gonococcus and meningococcus, who published the method in 1941. It is a non-selective and non-differential …

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Chocolate Agar: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements, Testing Procedure, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes, and Chocolate Agar Footages

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Chocolate Agar: Introduction,Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements,Testing Procedure, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes and Chocolate Agar Footages

Introduction of Chocolate agar  Chocolate Agar short form is (CHOC). It is a non-selective, enriched growth medium that is the lysed blood agar. The agar is named for its color when the red blood cells (RBCs) lysis gives the medium a chocolate-brown color without having chocolate …

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Blood Agar: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements, Test Procedure, Result -Interpretation, Uses, Keynotes, and Blood Agar Footages

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Blood Agar- Introduction, Composition, Principle, Preparation Requirements, Test Procedure, Result -Interpretation, Uses, Keynotes and Blood Agar Footages

Introduction of Blood Agar Blood agar is an enriched medium for the cultivation of bacteria. Fastidious organisms, such as streptococci, do not grow well on ordinary growth media. It is a type of growth medium i.e. trypticase soy agar enriched with 5% sheep blood or blood agar base with 5-10 % sterile …

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Nutrient Agar: Introduction, Composition, Test Requirements for Preparation, Test Procedure, Colony Characteristics, Uses, and Nutrient Agar Footages

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Staphylococcus aureus golden yellow colony on nutrient agar

Introduction of Nutrient Agar Nutrient agar is a simple medium which uses to grow bacteria. It is devoid of indicators, selective agents, differential ingredients, and enriching substances therefore uses for better expression of pigmentation, biochemical test, and even serotyping. The short form of nutrient agar …

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String Test to Identify Vibrio cholerae: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result-Interpretation, and Uses

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String test positive Vibrio cholerae

Introduction of String Test String test is a special test of bacteria to identify Vibrio cholerae (String test positive) from Vibrio species and other bacteria like Aeromonas species and Plesiomonas shigelloides. This assay can perform on a glass slide or plastic petri dish, suspending overnight …

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Fungal Videos: Introduction, List of Fungal Videos, and Short Description

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Aspergillus structures like septate hyphae, conidiophore or stipe, vesicle, Phialides, conidia, metulae, dichotomous branching (at an angle of approximately 45°) in LPCB Tease Mount Microscopy

Introduction of Fungal Videos This chapter is a part of a genuine puny collection of clinically relevant fungal videos. It is an author’s own work footage collected during laboratory diagnosis of fungal etiological agents in the mycology laboratory. List of Fungal Videos • Candida albicans …

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Immunochromatographic Test (ICT): Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation, Uses and ICT Footages

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Immunochromatographic Test (ICT): Introduction, Principle,Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation and Uses

Introduction of Immunochromatographic Test (ICT) The full form of ICT is the immunochromatographic test and it is the most common test in the diagnostic laboratory all over the world for the rapid finding in the field of diagnosis and treatment of patients. Lateral flow assays …

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Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar Test: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result- Interpretation, Keynotes, and TSI Test Footages

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Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar Test: Introduction, Composition, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result- Interpretation, Keynotes, and TSI Test Footages

Triple Sugar Iron Agar Test The triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar test is a combo test and is useful for the identification of mainly gram-negative bacteria, on the basis of the following tests- Composition of Triple Sugar Iron Agar Triple Sugar Iron Agar (TSI) (Oxoid, England) …

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